From 1 November, the bureaucracy and, in many cases, months-long wait farmers face to reclaim the Special Consumption Tax (SCT) and VAT on the agricultural diesel they use will be a thing of the past, as a new system comes into force allowing the relief to be granted directly at the pump.
Under a joint decision signed by the Minister of National Economy and Finance, Kyriakos Pierrakakis, the Minister of Rural Development and Food, Margaritis Schinas, and the Governor of the Independent Authority for Public Revenue (AADE), Giorgos Pitsilis, AADE’s new myDiesel digital service will go live on 1 November. It will allow eligible farmers to buy diesel fuel for engines exempt from SCT and VAT.
Retail fuel stations wishing to sell diesel to eligible farmers exempt from SCT and the corresponding VAT from 1/11/2026 onwards must register with the service. It will be available on the myAADE digital portal (myaade.gov.gr) from tomorrow, Thursday 22 October 2026, and within a few days will also be available via an app for mobile devices and tablets.
Registering with the app
To use the app, fuel stations must first update their details in AADE’s Register of Public-Use Fuel Stations.
To that end, AADE sent an information message last week to around 450 stations whose Register entries were incomplete; nearly 50% have already made the necessary corrections.
At the same time, the SCT is refunded to fuel stations automatically at least twice a week, on Mondays and Thursdays, after sales receipts have been verified through AADE’s information systems (myDATA or eSend). No further action is required from the station operator.
Provision under consultation
The Ministry of National Economy and Finance, following a proposal from AADE, has already put a provision out for public consultation and is submitting it for approval. It provides for fuel station operators to be reimbursed for the SCT and the VAT due on the SCT, and stipulates that refunds of both the SCT and the corresponding VAT are non-offsettable and protected from seizure.
The new process will rely on the electronic identification of eligible farmers and checks on the quantities of diesel they can buy without paying SCT. The system is based on AADE’s dedicated myDieselApp.
It will be simple and immediate:
- Download the app. The farmer downloads AADE’s myDieselApp to their mobile phone.
- Verification. The app verifies the farmer’s identity.
- QR code generation. During the transaction, the app generates a unique QR code.
- Online check. The station scans the code and an immediate online check confirms that the customer is an eligible farmer, that the product is diesel and that they have remaining entitlement within the permitted litre limit.
- Immediate discount. The SCT and corresponding VAT are automatically deducted from the invoice at the time of purchase.
How the app will work
Eligible quantities will be determined using updated crop data following the submission of OSDE declarations.
The app’s web and mobile functions will be presented tomorrow by the Minister of National Economy and Finance, Kyriakos Pierrakakis, the Minister of Rural Development and Food, Margaritis Schinas, and AADE Governor Giorgos Pitsilis.
The total relief for farmers from the exemption from SCT and the corresponding VAT amounts to 50.8 cents per litre. Of this, 41 cents is the Special Consumption Tax and 9.8 cents is the VAT charged on that tax.
For a farmer buying 1,000 litres of diesel, the saving therefore comes to €508. This amount will be deducted when the fuel is purchased, rather than refunded later as it is under the current system.
The benefit and who qualifies
Eligible applicants are individuals who have submitted a Single Aid Application (EAE) for the current or previous year, are registered in the Register of Farmers and Agricultural Holdings (MAAE) for the current year, and qualify as professional farmers or as professional farmers newly entering the agricultural sector. Eligible activities are those listed in the decision’s annexes on crop and livestock production.
A maximum annual volume of diesel is calculated for each eligible farmer. The calculation is based on the crops and areas, or livestock numbers, declared in the EAE, together with the relevant coefficients in the annexes. The resulting quantities are increased by 100%.
Indicative rates are 30 litres per stremma for cotton, 9 litres for olive groves producing olive oil and 20 litres for table-olive groves. With the 100% increase, the corresponding upper limits are 60, 18 and 40 litres per stremma, respectively, provided these are the details declared and taken into account in the EAE.
Limits and calculation of quantities
For livestock production, quantities are set per animal or beehive. For example, the rates are 2.9 litres for sheep and goats and 4 litres per beehive, before the increase.
For those qualifying as professional farmers newly entering the sector, the quantity is not calculated in the same way as for other eligible farmers. Instead, it is based on the average annual maximum eligible quantities for each type of crop or livestock production, using data from the previous year’s EAE.